Local and General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 46, 7 August 1939, Page 4

Local and General

SHOOTING GALLERY The Harbour Board,, at its meeting on .Friday, agreed to rent a °f the reclamation to Mr W. Morris for a shooting gallery. The terms are to be 10s a week, with a Aveek-to.week tenancy. A MODEL , , Charlie McCarthy the famous puppet Screen Star is to be seen, in excellent representation in the window of Mr A. E. Darvill the Strand. The well-known doll is figuring in a theatre attraction to be screened at 1 Whakatane in the near future. A SIGN OF SPRING A local resident states that,the two mornings spider webs have been seen glistening in the brigltt sunshine. He claims that this indicates fine weather and an early spring. Many people will fervently hope that he is a true prophet. MAILS REACH LONDON The Chief Postmaster at Thames advises that the letter mails despatched by the Wanganella from Wei lington on July 6, and by the Mariposa from Auckland on July 7, arrived in London x on July 21, and the letter mails despatched by the.; Aw& tea from Wellington on July 12 arrived in London on July 27. COUNTERFEIT - COINS The discovery of a Counterfeit half-crown in a sum of money deposited at a Hamilton bank last week led to police inquiries No other spurious coins have been reported in circulation, however. The half-crown wa s a remarkably good imitation. Inquiries in Whakatane do not reveal the presence of any in this district.

DUNEDIN'S SNOW Among minor effects of the Dun. edin snowfall were that car.chalns were soon unprocurable, the ''Funz-a-poppin'" revue had to be postponed, several suburban residents stayed at City hotels rather tlr>n attempt to go home, and snowballed did £200 worth of damage to neon light tubes, j REARING OF FISH "We needn't look to America for a lead in fish culture; they're learning from us every day " said Dr D. McK. Dickson, president of the North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, at a meeting of the council of the society. ''They may know a lot about, the transport of fish, but not- more than jwe do about fish culturc." ,

UNDER THE TADLE A reporter at the Auckland-North Auckland rugb match on Saturday v.-as literally "under the table." Pie was typing a running and get under the press table to shelter himself and lj r pe\vriter from the heavy rain. READY FOR FLYING BC)ATS> Mr R. A. Wimbush, of Imperial Airways technical staff, has been working i n New Zealand with a. special echo sounding apparatus to determine the suitability of alternative alighting areas (to the Waitemata for flying boats), and he has completed a detailed survey of Parengarenga Harbour, at the extreme ncrth of the North Island. FRUIT "DEGRADED" Objection to the word ''degraded" which is used on stickers applied to fruit not up to standard qf the grade marked on the case, was made by several delegates at the provincial conference of the New Zealand Fruitgrowers' Ltd, at Auckland. A remit from the Albany Fruit-growers' Association that the word re graded should be used will be forwarded to the Dominion conference. V;